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The story - translations...
mvansand76:
--- Quote from: stevenedel on July 19, 2006, 03:58:14 pm ---Glad you like it! You were just in time; by now, the site is down because I exceeded my data transfer limit >:(
Carol Crittendon, from Butte, Montana:
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Cassie!!!! :o
j.U.d.E.:
--- Quote from: stevenedel on July 19, 2006, 09:39:16 am ---I've never seen it with Dutch subtitles, and not wanting to is one of my reasons not to see BBM in the cinema. My DVD only has English subtitling, but now that I know all the words by heart I of course leave those switched off.
It's interesting, too, what they do with the title. Isn't it "The secret of the Mountain" in French? I find that a bit tacky, though not nearly as bad as "Two cowboys"...
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You are right, not nearly as bad as "Two Cowboys", but I don't like the French title. On some French forum someone once wrote something about why they sometimes had to add or alter an original title when 'translating' it, but I have forgotten what that person wrote. Not sure I will find it again.
BTW, love your avatar too!!
~ j U d E
j.U.d.E.:
--- Quote from: stevenedel on July 19, 2006, 02:50:04 pm ---
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Amazing!
~ j U d E
stevenedel:
--- Quote from: JudeW on July 20, 2006, 08:25:31 am --- You are right, not nearly as bad as "Two Cowboys", but I don't like the French title. On some French forum someone once wrote something about why they sometimes had to add or alter an original title when 'translating' it, but I have forgotten what that person wrote. Not sure I will find it again.
BTW, love your avatar too!!
~ j U d E
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:) Don"t get me started on how much I love YOUR avatar. But that goes without saying, I guess... ::)
In the case of this movietitle, translation seems unnecessary - it's the name of a place, and it's called what it's called. There are no cowboys, and there is no secret, so leave those out of it...
stevenedel:
--- Quote from: JudeW on July 20, 2006, 09:03:56 am ---Amazing!
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Isn't it? Though Mr. Wheatcroft's shirt closes left over right, and Ennis's right over left, so it seems. But still...
On another PC I also have an image of Wheatcroft 20 years later - aged almost beyond recognition. I found that moving, but shocking too, and it convinced me that in the movie Ennis ages a wee bit too gracefully...
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